"Ji Li's phone couldn't be reached. I found the victims' identity information.
Of the seven dead mentioned earlier, six suffered from various illnesses, all involving the five viscera.
Cheng Xiaoming and Tian Xiaolian in particular—one had spleen disease, the other lung disease, both with lesions of varying severity.
So I suspected that the killer had selected children suffering from organ diseases.
But only Cheng and Tian met its Five Elements criteria."
Amid the torrential rain and the roar of the car, Tong Guan's voice was extremely muffled. He spoke quickly, as if anxious to relay everything he knew.
Mei Sheng's expression turned grave. She quietly pressed harder on the accelerator and asked,
"If six of them had serious lesions, why did their parents know nothing about them?"
Before the mission began, the employees had not visited every victim's family, but they had investigated nearly half of them, and more than once.
Yet the families of those victims had been completely unaware of this.
Tong Guan's answer was flawless, leaving no room for rebuttal.
"That's because most of the parents were away from home year-round, and information in this area lagged badly.
On the eve of New Year's Day, every elementary school in the city organized group medical examinations, but the reports still hadn't been released."
Mei Sheng's expression worsened and worsened. Such crucial intelligence had only surfaced after the situation had deteriorated to this point.
"So what was taken from Tian Xiaolian was her lung disease."
The abstract and absurd had once again exceeded comprehension.
What the killer had taken from the victims were diseases of the five viscera.
Never mind how it had done it—the act itself was already abnormal and bizarre enough.
If the killer had taken the diseases from Tian Xiaolian and Cheng Xiaoming, why did those